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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Determing the encoding of a file Post 302751865 by DGPickett on Friday 4th of January 2013 04:01:26 PM
Old 01-04-2013
Yes, IBM is a world unto itself, and ebcdic is the dominant charset, and even then to print right you may need the code page. BCDIC was the 6 bit code, Binary Coded Decimal Info Code, so called because it was closely related to card codes with a decimal basis, where A is 21 base 8, B is 22, I is 31 (20+9), then J is 41 through R at 51, then / is 61, S is 62 through Z is 71. The r-x-0 rows of the card became upper bits, and 1-9 were binary coded. EBCDIC is BCDIC Extended to 8 bits.

You can probably get enca binary or source, and python and chardet for free, and install them. http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Enca http://www.python.org/getit/other/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet

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MANCONV(1)							Manual pager utils							MANCONV(1)

NAME
manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another SYNOPSIS
manconv -f from-code[:from-code...] -t to-code [-dqhV] [filename] DESCRIPTION
manconv converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like iconv. Unlike iconv, it can try multiple possible input encodings in sequence. This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit encoding declaration, since they may be in UTF-8 or in a legacy character set. If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page, that declaration overrides any input encodings specified on man- conv's command line. Encoding declarations have the following form: '" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared): '" t -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*- OPTIONS
-f encodings, --from-code encodings Try each of encodings (a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding. -t encoding, --to-code encoding Convert the manual page to encoding. -q, --quiet Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted. -d, --debug Print debugging information. -h, --help Print a help message and exit. -V, --version Display version information. SEE ALSO
iconv(1), man(1) AUTHOR
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). 2.8.3 2018-04-05 MANCONV(1)
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